MARY, THE PORTUGUESE. Ricardo Rodriguez
From the other side of the sea, come the sounds of a beautiful song and a sad love story.
Carlos Cano, recorded in 1986, Maria La Portuguesa, dedicated to fado singer Amalia Rodrigues.
CARLOS CANO
From the other side of the sea, come the sounds of a beautiful song and a sad love story.
Carlos Cano, recorded in 1986, Maria La Portuguesa, dedicated to fado singer Amalia Rodrigues.
CARLOS CANO PHOTO: Pedro Carrero
José Carlos Cano Fernández was born in Granada in 1946 and died early in December 2000. Artistically known as Carlos Cano was a English singer who grew relatively neglected traditional styles like the fado and, especially, the Andalusian copla. His versatility as a composer, able to write cuecas, tangos, rumba, samba, lullabies, songs, carnival or intimate themes murgas accompanied by just her voice and guitar or an orchestra, together with the quality and emotion of their texts, make Cano a leading figure in the English musical scene. Among his best-known songs include Mary Portuguese or the currelantes Murga.
Notebook With songs and Stay with the couplet claims the value of the couplet as Andalusian folk song, after use of the Franco that he had some contempt for modernity. Cano was thus the first author of this claim, continued later by artists such as martyrdom or Pasión Vega would get this style in place of modernity. As he sang the song Carlos Cano "Proclamation of the song" with lyrics Antonio Burgos: "It is neither English nor song is song and Andalusia." In 1998 he played music
poems Divan de Tamarit of Federico García Lorca, whose poetry author had previously worked, for what has the support of Leo Brouwer, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Curro Romero Orfeón Donostiarra, Paco Ibanez, Santiago Auserón and Marina Rossel.
Source: Wikipedia
José Carlos Cano Fernández was born in Granada in 1946 and died early in December 2000. Artistically known as Carlos Cano was a English singer who grew relatively neglected traditional styles like the fado and, especially, the Andalusian copla. His versatility as a composer, able to write cuecas, tangos, rumba, samba, lullabies, songs, carnival or intimate themes murgas accompanied by just her voice and guitar or an orchestra, together with the quality and emotion of their texts, make Cano a leading figure in the English musical scene. Among his best-known songs include Mary Portuguese or the currelantes Murga.
Notebook With songs and Stay with the couplet claims the value of the couplet as Andalusian folk song, after use of the Franco that he had some contempt for modernity. Cano was thus the first author of this claim, continued later by artists such as martyrdom or Pasión Vega would get this style in place of modernity. As he sang the song Carlos Cano "Proclamation of the song" with lyrics Antonio Burgos: "It is neither English nor song is song and Andalusia." In 1998 he played music
poems Divan de Tamarit of Federico García Lorca, whose poetry author had previously worked, for what has the support of Leo Brouwer, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Curro Romero Orfeón Donostiarra, Paco Ibanez, Santiago Auserón and Marina Rossel.
Source: Wikipedia
